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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

John Putnam Demos

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The Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America

The Unredeemed Captive won the Francis Parkman Prize and was nominated for the National Book Award. The setting for this haunting and encyclopedically researched work of history is colonial Massachusetts, where English Puritans first endeavoured to "civilize" a "savage" native populace. There, in February 1704, a French and Indian war party descended on the village of Deerfield, abducting a Puritan minister and his children. Although John Williams was eventually released, his daughter horrified the family by staying with her captors and marrying a Mohawk husband. Out of this incident, a gripping narrative has been constructed that opens a window into North America where English, French, and Native Americans faced one another across gulfs of culture and belief, and sometimes crossed over.

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Publisher
Vintage
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9780307790699
Genre
History
Topics
Colonial AmericaCaptivity narrativeNative American-Puritan relations

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